gynocritic
n.— «Elaine Showalter has now undertaken this daunting venture.…She once coined the term “gynocritic” for critics freed “from the linear absolutes of male literary history.”)» —“Writing Women” by Katie Roiphe New York Times Mar. 8, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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